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From 4 to 6 o'clock today and tomorrow the head ticket taker will see all students seeking positions at the gates to the stadium. Because of the need of experienced ticket takers in the future, the University is anxious to have as many Freshmen sign up as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL USHERS MUST APPLY FOR POSITIONS TODAY | 9/28/1937 | See Source »

...former section head and assistant head ushers who are attending the University this fall and who wish to work at the football games again, are expected to report to the Head Usher at the appointed hours. Former ticket takers desiring to continue this work should file application to the chief ticket taker at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL USHERS MUST APPLY FOR POSITIONS TODAY | 9/28/1937 | See Source »

...half the cattlemen sported high-heel boots and ten-gallon hats. None tucked in his pants. Sheep raisers and cattlemen, who traditionally loathe one another, shared tables in the Juarez cabarets. The only six-gun to be seen in El Paso last week was on a slick young ticket-taker at the Ellanay Theatre where Gary Cooper was playing in The Plainsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cattle Party | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...dead town that contains a chair factory, a textile mill, an undue proportion of neurotic inhabitants. The whistle makes a baby cry, gives a little girl a nightmare, disturbs a dying man, awakens a bridegroom, arouses a bride. Thereafter for 395 pages, as exhaustively as a census taker, Author Armfield moves from household to household, picturing each in a few sentences, starting up a hundred promising stories that he does not follow. Nothing holds the characters together except that they all live in Tuttle, so that whenever readers grow interested in one individual he fades into the crowd, leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction Tricks | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Many an irrepressible politician, journalist and poll taker last week risked a flunking mark by guessing the answers to the Presidential election before they were officially available. Some of the guesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Guesses | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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